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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Barielle: Some Like It Hot Collection

Hello everyone! Today I have for you swatches of the new Barielle Some Like It Hot collection. It consists of five polishes including four creams and one metallic shimmer. All are bright and perfect for summer. Without further delay, I hope you enjoy these beauties...

Gotta Have Fate
A coral orange cream. It has a nice very slightly jelly cream formula. Starts out a bit sheer, but builds up after three coats. It dries ever so slightly darker than the bottle color. The color has just enough coral to make this really wearable for me. Swatches are with no top coat...

Swatch Details

Brand: BarielleCollection: Some Like It HotColor Name/Number: Gotta Have Fate, 5111Number of coats: 3Top Coat: No

Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Life of the Party
A pink cream. The formula is very pigmented and has good coverage with two coats. It is a bit on the thick side, but no major problems with application. Just a nice pink cream. Swatches are with no top coat...

Swatch Details

Brand: BarielleCollection: Some Like It HotColor Name/Number: Life of the Party, 5187Number of coats: 2Top Coat: No

Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Lily of the Valley
A shimmery metallic green. It is brighter on the nail than in the bottle. The formula provides full coverage with just two coats, however, the it is a bit thin and I had some trouble wrapping it around the tips. The shimmer just didn't want to stick. Wrapping trouble aside, the color is beautiful so it was well worth it....

Swatch Details

Brand: BarielleCollection: Some Like It HotColor Name/Number: Lily of the Valley, 5227Number of coats: 2Top Coat: No

Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Sunshine
A bright yellow cream with just the slightest hint of a shimmer. I do love that touch of a shimmer in creams like this. Formula was great for a yellow, two coats for full opacity and no streaking. I know yellow is a hard color to wear, but I have been loving it this summer. Swatches are with no top coat...

Swatch Details

Brand: BarielleCollection: Some Like It HotColor Name/Number: Sunshine, 5255Number of coats: 2Top Coat: No

Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Surf's Up
A bright blue cream. This is very very pigmented. You can almost get away with just one coat, but I used two to even out the coverage. I don't know if it is the brightness of the color or the shade of blue, but it really bleached out my already pale skin. Also this thing stained my nails big time even with a base coat. You can already see the "black eyes" on my index and middle finger where I got a bit color happy and had to clean the cuticles. My nails were completely blue after taking this off. Luckily, I remembered the whitening toothpaste trick from Another Bottle of Polish?! and it worked beautifully. I highly recommend it for fresh staining! I'm sad I didn't snap a before and after photo, but I hope you'll forgive me for not wanting to repeat the staining. On the plus side, I bet this will be perfect for stamping and since I don't have a good stamping blue yet, I'm excited to have this...

Swatch Details

Brand: BarielleCollection: Some Like It HotColor Name/Number: Surf's Up, 5254Number of coats: 2Top Coat: No

Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

I'd love to know what you think!

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

** These polishes were provided to me for review by the manufacturer or their PR. **

8 comments:

First photos I have seen of these - thanks so much. I am liking Surf's Up - not sure it's not something I don't have something really close to already but am an admitted sucker for great blue creams. Lily of the Valley - I KNOW Barielle had this named polish in the past. I just cannot recall if it was this shade, thus don't know if this is a re-promote or not. Sorry to hear the formula on Lilly is not that perfect. The color is a beauty.

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